I laugh when all this messages of Wole Soyinka and co are distributed on WhatsApp, trying to blame Nigerian youths for the current state of the nation, using Awolowo who was 37 years, Akintola 36, Ahmadu, Bello 36, Balewa 34, Okotie-Eboh 27, Enahoro 27, K Nzeogwu who was 29 years, M.Mohammed 28, T. Danjuma 28, I. Babangida 25, J. Garba 23, Sani Abacha 23, and M. Yar'adua 23, Y. Gowon 32, Ojukwu 33, Obasanjo 29, And Buhari 24! as role models the Nigerian youth should take after(whom from now i will refer to as the 23s) as the challenge factors. According to them we have examples of MT Mbu who became Nigeria's Foreign Affairs Minister at 23 and Pat Utomi who became a Federal Adviser at 27. This is laudable, but Soyinka and co seem to no longer be in knowledge of happenings in Nigeria. He seem to forget that we are in a cabalistic Nigeria and that the said 23s have refuse to give up power or even do anything to better this country but to pocket our Naira in foreign banks and hidden houses.
Soyinka seems to have forgotten that back then education was free, and proper feeding given to this old leaders. What did they do when they came into power, they destroyed the system, seized power and plunged the nation into fear. The stand on national TV and talk, talk and talk. What does not appreciate will depreciate as can be seen today the later seems to be the current condition of our nation, which is reflecting also on our youths. There are no policies that encourage the creativity of our youths, nor any for their well being. Because of this every Dick, Tom and Harry wants to leave the nation, leaving the less privileged ones to keep suffering under the not to be commended governance of the 23s, this including the said 23s who have dumped their kids abroad and gone on to destroy the nation and plunge us into chaos and insecurity.
Senator Bruce called that every elected politician should resign if nothing can be done by them to better this country. And that is my stand, that youths should be allowed to pilot this nation.
Nigeria is one among the most dangerous nation to be lived in on earth quote me anywhere.
Do i have to remind Soyinka and co that world over men had to give up for the younger generation to take up the sit of power, if progress is to be made? I may not be as eloquent or brilliant as Soyinka, nor can i physically, monetarily or otherwise challenge him. Nor is this a challenge to him or anyone else, unless they choose it to be. But I bring history to him from the country he so long have lived in after his self exile from his own very country....I remind him of George Washington who refused second term and and so on moved to his state to set up a distillery and pursued farming activities common for a gentle man of his days. Do I also remind him of James K Polk who made a campaign promise of one term setting four goals and achieving them in his tenure and yet refused to run for second term. Permit me Soyinka and co to remind you of Chester Arthur who came into power after Garfield was assassinated. Even Calvin Coolidge who by 1928 made a simple speech of " I do not choose to run for president" That was it, no further comment, no elaboration, no indication of what he actually meant by his use of the word "choose". Our politicians must have heard of Lyndon Baines Johnson who was among all expected to run for second term, but shocked the world by march 31 1968 to reject further nomination for the Presidency. I am talking of men who gave up power for the progress of the nation to buttress a point to all those blaming Nigerian youth for not living up to the 23s of the coup era. This said 23s of those days have seized power and did nothing with it. Rather they crippled the system and made policies that will not oppose them. By asking what has become of the Nigerian youth and comparing us to the 23s of the 1st, 2nd regimes who by the way are still in power and will oppose and kill anyone who dares question them, it is as if we are been encourage to take up weapons and plot coups. Soyinka and co have taken their sons and daughters in this same age bracket and kept them in foreign countries, (for this i do not feel ill over, but putting it to the youth that we have failed is my cranky, monologue about), and want us to die trying to clean up the mess they have made and have refused to even give opportunity to the same youth to clean up.
When all this men where attending the higher institutions how many strike breaks did the universities go on? How many lecturers will refuse to award you your merited grade because you will not sleep with them or offer them few monies. Books were relatively made available and the educational environment tranquil. This old men have turned the country upside with land grabbing, money pocketing and all forms of corruption, created a depreciative education system by giving guns to the youth, owing teachers and lecturers, thereby making life and sound education impossible for the young Nigeria / Nigerian, the odour that ooze from the mess via the corridors of this men have affected the entire citizenry. We cannot give up what is rightfully someone's by merit of hard work and diligence without asking for our cut. We are corrupted by the system and have been addressed as "fantastically" corrupt due to the actions of the 23s. This 23s and others that followed them have dried up the flow of money by not creating jobs, industry or maintaining a good education system to breed a generation that will take over from them, and have continued to pass power among themselves as it were a football passed around by the Barca team of Pep Guardiola era because they do not want to give up power.
The Nigerian Youth is creative, the Nigerian youth is hard working, and many more but are suffocated by the so called 23s who Soyinka and co have used to challenge us. To run for any political position in this country requires exorbitant amount of naira of which are harder to come by, because the privileged 23s who own political parties and no industry or any outstanding achievement in the country other than their, mansions from our treasury which they keep looting have devalued any and everything Nigeria. This Old men will do anything to anyone who set site to oppose them. With our money, illegal gotten from the privilege of service given to them by the British, they control every position in the country. Is Soyinka and co saying we should plot coup, since it is the modus operandi of the 23s? Today the entire nation is pleading with one of the 23s who is older than Nigerian democracy to not run for power. By this i challenge Soyinka and any well meaning and well doing Nigerian to look deep into and among the youths and show public and financial support to, in regards to cleaning up the mess they have created and see the lot that will be achieved in less than 4years. If Soyinka is looking for our youth in the current political arena, (for it seems he is not aware of the political age barriers in Nigeria) he may find but a hand few, but if he is looking for the Nigerian youths, we are out there fending for ourselves, we are out there doing for ourselves what no government can do for us, we are out there taking care of our families, we are out there as musicians, artist, craftsmen and women, technologists, welders, tailors, taxi drivers, brick layers, lecturers, doctors, carpenters and many more because many of us cannot afford to use our bloods to wet the appetite of a country under captivity by your 23s and leave our families suffering.
We are out there!
